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HARRY, GATTHER, OF MUNUIWENT, NEW MIEXIECO.'

WINDMTLL.

@application filed July a5, 1921. 1 aerial No. 437,394.

Be it known that T, HARRY citizen of the United States, residing at Monument, in the county of Lea and btate of New Mexico, have invented certain new and useful improvements in a Windmill, of which the following is a specification.

This invention reates to awindmill and has for its principal object to generally improve upon devices of this character byproviding a mechanism whichl will be o-f extremely simple and efficient construction and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

Another object of theinvention is to construct a windmill which is capable of revolvin so as to place its pro-pellers in roper positio-n so that they will come into e cient en gagement with the wind. y

Tn' or/der that those skilled in this art may have affull understanding of the invention, T have illustrated a desirable and preferred lembodiment of the same in the accompany ing drawing forming a part of this specification, and throughout the various views of which like reference numerals refer to the same parts.

Tn the drawing v Figure 1 is an elevational view of the windmill, and

Figure 2 is a central longitudinally vertically arranged sectional View.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that 1 designates a base in which is mounted a tube 2.v A platform 3 is revolubly mounted upon` the base l bymeans of the castors 4C' or any other suitable. means and the tube 2 passes therethrough as is shown. to advantage in Figure 2.

A plurality of standards 5 extends upwardly from the platform 3 and in the present illustrations-these standards are four in number and are equally spaced from each other. The shafts 6 and 7 are suitably jour- 4naled in the standards 5 and have keyed thereto intermediate their ends the propel- 1ers indicated generally by the numeral 8. Each propeller. consists of a plurality of pins or blades 9 radiating from the hub 10 and a pair of rings 11 are connected to each of the blades 9 upon each side thereof and flexible members 12 are connected at onev end to the rings .11 and at the other end to it will be seen thatv a propeller has been prof the collars 13 which are suitably fixed to the shafts 6 and 7 adjacent their ends. Thus Garmin-n, a

these shafts 16 to accommodate the fourh propellers shown but of course any number of these propellers might be useddepending upon their size and the height of the standards 5. At the lower end of the shaft 16 there are situated the beveled. gears 18 which are in mesh with the beveled gears 19 on the crank shaft 20. A connecting rod 21 is in engagement with the crank pin of the crank shaft 20 and is pivoted at its other end to a rod 22 slidably mounted in the tube 2.and brace rods 23. This rod upon rotation of the propellers 8 will have a reciprocatin motion which may be used for any desire purposes.

The upper ends of the standards 5 are connected by the cross beams 25 and are provided with converging extensions 26 which are suitably connected by a bracket 27 in which is swivelly mounted an yeye bolt 29 to which are attached the plurality of wires or cables 30. These cables aredrawn taut and fastened to anyvsuitable anchoring means thlllls efficiently bracing vthe top of the wind m' l.

Having thus described my invention what lf claim as new is 1. Tn combination, a base, a platform revolvably mounted on the base, a frame mounted. on the platform and including a n plurality of upright standards, extensions mounted on the standards ofthe frame and disposed so as to converge toward each other,

a bracket'for receiving the terminals of the volvably mounted on the base, a tube extending Ythrough the base and projecting centrally through the platform to act as an axle therefor, a rod reciprocatable through the tube and wind propulsion means mounted on the plat-form for reciprocating the rod.

3. Tn combination, a base, a platform relio roh-'ably mounted on the base, a plurality of upright standards mounted on the platform to form a frame, a shaft journaled between two of the upright standards, wind propulsion'means on the shaft, a second shaft journaled on one standard so as to extend longtudinally therewith in parallelism `and adjacent thereto, gears disposed bet-Ween the two shafts, and power transmitting' mechanism operable by thesecond mentioned shaft.

4. In combination, a base, a platform revolvably mounted on the base, a frame mounted on the base and including a plurality of upstanding standards, extensions mounted on the'standards of the frame at the upper ends thereof and disposed so as to converge toward each other, a bracket for receiving the terminals of the extensions, an

eye bolt swivelly mounted in4 the bracket, means for bracing the eye bolt, a shaft journaled between two of the standards, a propeller mounted on the shaft, a second shaft, journaled longitudinally with and in parallelism with one standard, a tube extending through the base and the platform to act as an axle for the platform, a shaft reciprocatable-through the tube, and means for reciprocating the rod, said means being operable by the second mentioned shaft.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HARRY GAITHER.

.VVitnesses:

W. A. STANSEIL, T. P. BINGHAM. 

